Job opening: Civil Engineer

Salary: $86 962 - 113 047 per year

Relocation: YES

City: Page

Published at: Aug 29 2024

Employment Type: Full-time

This position is located at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the Project Management Division. This position is also advertised government wide to status (federal / veteran / other eligible) applicants with announcement: IM-1541-GLCA-24-12531567-ST

Duties

This position works under the supervision of the Chief of Project Management with the primary purpose of providing professional civil engineering advice and guidance on the operation and maintenance of existing and/or new structures and facilities. Projects/work support may include but are not limited to the following type of structures or facilities: campsites, visitor centers lodging facilities, employee housing, potable water-systems, wastewater systems, electrical systems, communication systems, roads, bridges, trails, parking/bus facilities, transportation systems, and administrative structures. You will provide or manage project scoping, data and asset management, design phases (pre-design, schematic design, design development, construction documents), value analysis, and administration for a broad range of facilities and related maintenance operations, including construction, rehabilitation, and renovation and re-purposing. You will ensure projects meet budget and schedule requirements. Project work may include, but is not limited to, the following type of structures or facilities: campsites, visitor centers, employee housing, potable water system, wastewater systems, communication systems, roads, bridges, trails, parking, bus facilities, transportation systems, and administrative structures. Work includes multiple simultaneously managing multiple projects, ranging from small, single-discipline to large multi-disciplinary design and construction projects involving both single and multiple-year phasing, potentially funded from multiple funding sources. You will encounter work components requiring creative solutions that balance cultural and natural resource compliance issues and/or politically sensitive issues. You will provide professional guidance based on understanding of major principles and industry standards. You will perform contracting officer's representative duties for A/E services, construction, and other contracts. You will serve as contracting officer's representative on construction projects. Area/Housing Information: This position is located at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, on the Arizona-Utah border. Page overlooks beautiful Lake Powell which offers boating, associated water sports, hunting, recreation and fishing, as well as river running on the Colorado River above and below Lake Powell. The surrounding land offers beautiful red rock country for hiking and backcountry wilderness activity. Page is at the hub of the Grand Circle, containing America's largest concentration of national parks and monuments, such as Grand Canyon, Zion, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Staircase Escalante, and the Flagstaff Area Monuments. Page offers normal small community amenities such as airport, shopping, medical and dental facilities, schools K-12 and college courses available through the local Community College. Elevation in Page is 4300 feet above sea level and the weather is beautiful high desert sunny days, cool nights and low humidity. Home purchases are available in the area. For park information, please visit www.nps.gov/glca, for local information, please visit www.cityofpage.org/. Park housing is not available.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/12/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess the following basic and minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Applicants must possess the basic education requirement for an engineer. Transcripts MUST be submitted and include your name, school name, credit hours, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. We cannot determine eligibility without this information. (A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty, if selected). The Basic Education requirement may be met in one of the following ways (see below). Degree in Engineering, To be acceptable, the curriculum must: 1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or 2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: a) statics, dynamics; b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; d) thermodynamics; e) electrical fields and circuits; f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Combination of education and experience-college level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1) Professional Registration; 2) Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam or the written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico; 3) Specified academic courses--Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The course must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described under the basic requirements; or 4) Related curriculum--Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or appropriate professional field provided the applicant has 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. - AND - SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the basic education requirements listed above for this position. Applicants must also possess at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience may be of the following but not limited to: Develops civil engineering project construction drawings, technical specifications, and cost estimates and applies professional engineering principles, concepts, practices, procedures of project development AND at least 1 of the following: 1.) oversees contractors or other project team members; 2.) provides operational leadership principles; 3.) implements risk management regarding work safety. You must include hours per week worked. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.